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Over the Garden Fence: Where did the katydids go?
Telegraph-Forum via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe killing frost means that the life cycle of many insects has come to an end. It is so with the katydid. A katydid is really just a "long-horned"...
A 50-million-year-old insect testicle is one lucky find
Popular Science· 9 months agoPresent-day katydids of the genus Arethaea, pictured here, have the same internal structures as...
‘Biblical’ swarms of giant Mormon crickets destroying crops in US West
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFarmers in the American West are battling outbreaks of Mormon crickets — insects that can grow...
'Biblical' insect swarms spur Oregon push to fight pests
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoApril Aamodt holds a Mormon cricket in her hand in Blalock Canyon near Arlington, Ore., on June 17....
Explosive, ‘truly biblical' swarms of cannibalistic insects ravage crops out West
AccuWeather via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, holds a female Mormon...
Mormon crickets arrived late this spring, but they’re out in force in Idaho roads, plants
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIf you drive out to the desert south of Boise, that may not be gravel you hear crunching under your...
'They’re just gross': Mormon crickets descend on Nevada and wreak havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoParts of Nevada are being overrun by an explosion of flightless, ground-dwelling cannibalistic...
Not swarms of locusts — they’re Mormon crickets. Why experts fear their rise in Idaho
Idaho Statesman McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoIdahoans can expect to see Mormon crickets for a little longer than usual this year. And this...
Massive swarm of Mormon crickets blankets city, fueling nightmares and endangering drivers: ‘That...
The Cool Down via Yahoo News· 8 months agoResidents of Elko, Nevada, saw an unusual number of Mormon crickets in June — enough to blanket...
Crickets and grasshoppers everywhere!
Times Record News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCrickets and grasshoppers everywhere! Is this an unusual occurrence or summer status quo? Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an abundance of...